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Trump's troop cut in Germany blindsided senior U.S. officials, sources say

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JUNE 8, 2020 / 11:25 PM / A DAY AGO
Trump's troop cut in Germany blindsided senior U.S. officials, sources say

Jonathan Landay, Andrea Shalal, Arshad Mohammed
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Trump decided to remove 9,500 troops from Germany, one of America's strongest allies, reducing the number there to 25,000 from 34,500, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

That official said it was the result of months of work by the U.S. military leadership and had nothing to do with tensions between Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who thwarted his plan to host an in-person Group of Seven (G7) summit this month.

But other sources familiar with the matter said a number of U.S. officials at the White House, State Department and Pentagon were surprised by the decision and they offered explanations ranging from Trump's pique over the G7 to the influence of Richard Grenell, the former U.S. ambassador to Germany and a Trump loyalist.

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